Skillern, a registered sex offender who worked as a cook at a Denny's, is being held on $200,000 bail, the news station reported.

Back in California, Google is not commenting to media. But privacy and Internet experts note that Google has already made it clear that its users have no "legitimate" expectation to privacy, as the Internet giant argued in a recent court case.

It was not immediately clear if Google fingered the child porn via a unique digital "fingerprint" all digital images have, or if another method was used.